Vendor · #4704 by total payments to the State of Delaware

Barnes & Noble

Barnes & Noble has been paid $356,877 by the State of Delaware since FY2018, primarily through Dept of Education's Red Clay Consolidated Sch Dist division.

ARP federal fundsRecent payments
$357K
total payments · FY18–FY26
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Jul 11, 2017First payment
Apr 27, 2026Last payment
504Payments
0Documents
6Programs
3Agencies

Relationships

Programs

ProgramAgencyAmountYears
Red Clay Consolidated Sch Dist Dept of Education $136,178 FY18–FY26
Brandywine School District Dept of Education $84,560 FY18–FY26
Christina School District Dept of Education $79,607 FY18–FY26
Capital School District Dept of Education $13,991 FY18–FY26
Vocational Rehabilitation Svcs Dept of Labor $8,949 FY18–FY26
Indian River School District Dept of Education $6,645 FY18–FY26
Christina Esser III #12-21 Federal — American Rescue Plan $22,071 FY22
Ll Rpl 26-21 Scela Esser3 Federal — American Rescue Plan $10,489 FY25
Ap Dsclp 14-21 Whm Esser3 Federal — American Rescue Plan $4,179 FY24

Money

Where it goes
By category
Books and Publications
$169K
Instructional Supplies
$164K
Training Supplies
$13K
Student Support Supplies
$8K
Operating Supplies
$2K
Which pot of money
Federal Funds
$73K
Local Funds
$48K
General Fund
$19K
Kuumba Academy General
$1K
By fiscal year
FY18$104K
FY19$58K
FY20$28K
FY21$25K
FY22$68K
FY23$9K
FY24$13K
FY25$31K
FY26$20K
State credit-card purchases $293K · 8 years
Fiscal yearAmountTransactions
FY18$27,905104
FY19$47,826105
FY20$53,004100
FY21$51,14682
FY22$31,09164
FY23$27,25761
FY24$27,11960
FY26$27,60854
Who swipes, and for what
DepartmentCategoryAmountTransactions
Dept of EducationBook Stores $115,03374
Appoquinimink School DistrictBook Stores $26,87549
Del Tech and Comm CollegeBooks Periodicals and... $19,78158
Del Tech and Comm CollegeBook Stores $12,20035
Indian River School DistrictBook Stores $10,98928
East Side Charter SchoolBooks Periodicals and... $10,74923
Appoquinimink School DistrictBooks Periodicals and... $7,62025
Dept of Health and Social SvBook Stores $7,3996
Red Clay Consolidated Sch DistBooks Periodicals and... $7,15619
Cape Henlopen School DistrictBooks Periodicals and... $6,72717

Source: state employee credit-card dataset, matched by merchant name. FY2025 is missing from the state portal.

How the spending is booked 5 account lines
AccountAmountLine items
Instructional Supplies$80,42972
Books and Publications$47,47628
Training Supplies$6,7789
Student Support Supplies$6,4328
Employee Recognition$7551

Fund and account lines come from the expenditure-detail dataset (source ↗), which itemizes payments at a finer grain than the checkbook.

Yearly totals — full table 9 fiscal years
Fiscal yearTotalChecks
FY18$104,482154
FY19$57,581124
FY20$27,99648
FY21$24,94860
FY22$68,05226
FY23$9,09717
FY24$13,29725
FY25$31,11734
FY26$20,31016
Browse every payment 504 checks →
Recent payments latest 15 checks
DateDepartmentCategoryAmount
Apr 27, 2026 Dept of EducationInstructional Supplies $913
Mar 5, 2026 Dept of EducationInstructional Supplies $383
Nov 6, 2025 Dept of EducationInstructional Supplies $950
Oct 24, 2025 Dept of EducationBooks and Publications $7,338
Oct 24, 2025 Dept of EducationBooks and Publications $5,647
Oct 13, 2025 Dept of EducationInstructional Supplies $249
Oct 13, 2025 Dept of EducationInstructional Supplies $1,196
Oct 13, 2025 Dept of EducationInstructional Supplies $1,007
Oct 13, 2025 Dept of EducationInstructional Supplies $27
Oct 13, 2025 Dept of EducationInstructional Supplies $545
Oct 2, 2025 Dept of EducationInstructional Supplies $704
Sep 12, 2025 Dept of EducationInstructional Supplies $35
Sep 12, 2025 Dept of EducationInstructional Supplies $189
Sep 12, 2025 Dept of EducationInstructional Supplies $681
Sep 12, 2025 Dept of EducationStudent Support Supplies $391

Source: State of Delaware checkbook · synced 2026-07-25. Open source dataset ↗

Source datasets

State checkbook (payments) · synced 2026-07-25 data.delaware.gov/d/5s6n-7hpx ↗
ARP transparency (federal funds) data.delaware.gov/d/e2rw-zi3s ↗
This vendor also appears in state records as
BARNES & NOBLEBarnes & Noble